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May 24, 2013
Live like a VIP in Staying Cool’s penthouse

We checked in to the penthouse apartment in the iconic Rotunda, Birmingham, England, for a weekend of shopping, clubbing and more

Fed up with boring hotels? Feel you need the VIP treatment? Why not stay in your very own penthouse apartment?

So my partner and I checked in to Staying Cool’s penthouse in the Rotunda, Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England.

The first thing I loved about it was, for the price of a posh hotel room, I was getting two double bedrooms, so we could also invite our friends Andy and Steve to spend the weekend with us.

October 24, 2012
Yenta - the Jewish answer to Grindr

Forget your Jewish mother giving you a guilt complex about a kosher match - Yenta, an iPhone app is here to help

If you are fed up hearing your Jewish mother and grandparents kvetching that you’ve got to find already a Jewish prince or princess, despair no more – Yenta is here to help.

Yenta, meaning matchmaker in Yiddish, is the Jewish answer to Grindr, it’s a new dating app available on the iPhone that uses GPS to match Jewish singles, straight or gay.

Now you can sing along to fiddler on the roof: ‘Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make me a match, Find me a find, catch me a catch’ and in seconds you may find your ‘Jewboo’, a term used by the application for a match.

September 25, 2012
Bullied, beaten, abused and ‘exorcised’

Ugandan lesbian asylum seeker Freda Nsumba pleads for help to halt her deportation from the UK

When Freda Nsumba was outed as a teenage lesbian in Uganda the treatment she says she received was barbaric. She claims she was beaten, forced to walk on her knees until they bled and fed goats’ blood to cast out her demons.

Now she’s claiming asylum in Britain, saying she faces persecution, arrest and abuse if she is forced to go back home.

But her case lies in the balance and she could be flown home as early as this Friday (28 September).

Here is her story in her own words, as far as possible.

June 8, 2012
Welcome to Gay China TV

Gay Star News talks to Xiaogang Wei, founder of Queer Comrades, China’s online LGBT TV channel

It’s a depressing thought, but to a certain extent TV defines who we are as a society. Is the increase of gay characters on TV shows in the West a reflection of greater tolerance? Or is society more tolerant because of Glee, Modern Family, Queer as Folk and The L Word?

In China, like many countries, gay characters are banned from state administered TV, film and radio. For five years Beijing-based website Queer Comrades has been getting around the censors and broadcasting talk shows, news, documentaries and fiction on LGBT-related topics.

May 21, 2012
A picture saying a million words about gay kids

Photo goes viral after President Obama confirms his support to gay marriage

This mystery photo is at least a year old but now its message has gone viral.

It spells out some of the most damaging costs to LGBT youth as a result of homophobia and intolerance.

The photo was reposted in response to President Obama’s appearance on the American daytime chat show The View on 15 May, where he confirmed his support for gay marriage.

One of the young people's placards reads: 'I found death threats in my locker.'

While another reveals: 'I am afraid to hold my boyfriend's hand.'